From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: wiki, README and TODO update Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:16:12 +0200 Message-ID: <4A0D5D0C.5060800@redhat.com> References: <4A098CB5.2070006@redhat.com> <1242351147.29452.2.camel@sentry-no.us.dell.com> <1242355988.5107.4.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <1242389030.29452.10.camel@sentry-no.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1242389030.29452.10.camel-76q0VzFBGGqhmyxYjSZgiRL4W9x8LtSr@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: initramfs On 05/15/2009 02:03 PM, Victor Lowther wrote: > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 22:53 -0400, David Dillow wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 20:32 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 16:50 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: >>>> Today I updated http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/dracut/ and the package README and TODO files. >>>> The next days, I will add iSCSI support and test various network setups. >>> Cool. I ahve been working on some test suite improvements (lvm on >>> cryptroot on software raid5), and am working on making dracut actually >>> work in that configuration. I will post patches to the mailing list >>> once it works without manual hackery. >>> >>> Next stop, all that over iscsi. Should be fun. >> Glad to see this project isn't dead... > > I had a sudden attack of Real Life -- my daughter learned to crawl, so > the tiny amounts of free time I once had vanished. cool :-) not so good for dracut :-/ > >> I've got a few boot-off-of-NFS patches together that use DHCP options to >> find the root, and let it be overridden by the command line. I've also >> got a piece that lets it boot over a bonded network. I'll try to circle >> back to those and post them before Memorial Day (May 25h). > > Cool. Can you also hack up a makefile target that tests it using kvm > and/or qemu? > > I suppose I should post my more generic test suite improvements (making > kvm/qemu work no matter what it is named on any given distro) to give > you something a little easier to build with. yes, just post them, no matter, if they apply to the actual tree.. I will merge them and clean them up. > >> These all trigger off of udev events, though I recall there was some >> discussion about whether that was the way to go or not. In many ways, >> they are just polish on some of the network patches that have been >> posted here before (by you two, IIRC). > > I don't think we ever finally decided one way or the other, the > conversations kind of died off without reaching a conclusion. > I think "all trigger off of udev events" is the way to go. If it doesn't work, try to fix the tools that do not work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html